Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Now that Microsoft has released their development kit that brings Kinect software to Windows, many venues are beginning to look for applications for the video game sensor. Right now, Whole Foods is looking into a prototype that would use a Kinect system …

ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what seems to be the next evolution of malware, the Zeusbot/SpyEye Trojan network has been discovered in the wild that doesn’t rely on a centralized command-and-control server—instead, the new variants use a peer-to-peer architecture to get the job done. According an …

The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells SiliconANGLE. Over the years, the video scene for …

Rumors Abound About Blizzard’s Free-to-Play Project

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Of course, on this subject Blizzard Entertainment is mum. Best known for their mighty massively multiplayer online phenomenon and game title, World of Warcraft, the gaming studio might be looking to go where many other MMOs are starting to go: into the …

Infragard Can’t Catch a Break: Anonymous 0wns FBI-Affiliate Once Again

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

June of last year, Infragard Atlanta—an affiliate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation—found themselves the target of LulzSec during their rampage across the Internet. Due to their close proximity to the FBI and law enforcement, their websites have been constant targets for …

Reddit Looks to Democratized Lawmaking with “The Free Internet Act”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

After the roaring success of reddit in helping combat the Internet-censorship bills SOPA and PROTECT-IP, the community there decided that they would try their hand at drafting legislation. As a highly collaborative forum for discussion and a democratizing technology, reddit forwards a …

Google’s Internet-enabled Spectacles Will Bring Cyberspace to Your Eyes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It looks like all those rumors about Google working on cyber-glasses are beginning to take shape and, according to reports, we might even see them on the market before the end of 2012. No more constantly flicking on a smartphone to check …

Stuxnet: Still a Telling Feat of Political Cyberwar Over a Year Later

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The existence of Stuxnet really brings modern cyberwar into the realm of life imitating science fiction. The video speaks about how Stuxnet is the implicit case for weaponized code—truthfully any tool can be turned into a weapon. The compelling case for this …

The Battle Over The Pirate Bay Censorship Rages On Across Europe

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Thunderstorms have been rumbling in the cloud over what to do with the file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, and most of the drama centers around how different nations treat copyright infringement. As a site TPB would exist in a sort of …

Google’s Self-Driving Cars May Soon Be Driving Legally in Nevada

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what will be a momentous occasion for Google, Nevada has just unveiled the intent to draft legislation that will make them the first state in the United States to approve autonomous, self-driving cars. As we at SiliconANGLE noticed before, the search …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods

ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer

The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec

Rumors Abound About Blizzard’s Free-to-Play Project

Infragard Can’t Catch a Break: Anonymous 0wns FBI-Affiliate Once Again

Reddit Looks to Democratized Lawmaking with “The Free Internet Act”

Google’s Internet-enabled Spectacles Will Bring Cyberspace to Your Eyes

Stuxnet: Still a Telling Feat of Political Cyberwar Over a Year Later

The Battle Over The Pirate Bay Censorship Rages On Across Europe

Google’s Self-Driving Cars May Soon Be Driving Legally in Nevada

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